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Vue

📕 How to access DOM elements with useTemplateRef

👉🏻 The useTemplateRef composable is a much better way to access DOM elements than the old way with refs.

👉🏻 Here's how to use it.

📕 Vue 3 + Pinia + Firebase CRUD App Tutorial

👉🏻 Learn how to build a Vue 3 CRUD app with Pinia and Firebase Firestore, including UI styling and Firebase Hosting deployment.

💡 Vue Tip: Optimize Performance with useInfiniteScroll from VueUse

Need to load more content as the user scrolls? VueUse's useInfiniteScroll composable makes it effortless:

1<script setup lang="ts">
2import { useInfiniteScroll } from '@vueuse/core'
3import { ref, useTemplateRef } from 'vue'
4
5const el = useTemplateRef<HTMLElement>('el')
6
7useInfiniteScroll(
8  el,
9  () => {
10    // load more
11    data.value.push(...moreData)
12  },
13  {
14    distance: 10,
15    canLoadMore: () => {
16      // inidicate when there is no more content to load so onLoadMore stops triggering
17      // if (noMoreContent) return false
18      return true // for demo purposes
19    },
20  }
21)
22
23function resetList() {
24  data.value = []
25  reset()
26}
27</script>
28
29<template>
30  <div ref="el">
31    <-- List of items -->
32  </div>
33</template>

The key features include:

Performance-aware: Triggers only when needed, based on scroll position

Highly configurable: Customize scroll distance, direction, and event throttling

Easy integration: Works seamlessly with the Composition API and reactive data sources

For implementation details, visit the documentation.

Nuxt

📕 Installing Tailwind CSS v4 on Nuxt 3*

👉🏻 In this article, you’ll learn how to install and configure Tailwind v4 in your Nuxt 3 project with a clear, step-by-step guide.

📕 Nuxt Server Routes: Build a Full-Stack App with Zero Backend

👉🏻 In this article, you'll dive into what Nuxt Server Routes are, why they feel magical, and how to build a simple full-stack app that talks directly to a database — no separate server needed.

📕 Making Avatars Move: AI Generated Videos with Runway in a Nuxt App*

👉🏻 Learn how to build an AI-powered moving avatar generator using Nuxt.js (Vue) and Runway.

👉🏻 Transform static profile pictures into animated videos with custom API endpoints with image-to-video AI.

📕 Building a Nuxt module from scratch

👉🏻 In this article, you’ll walk through creating a Nuxt module from scratch, step-by-step—from scaffolding to publishing.

📕 Server Routes in Nuxt*

👉🏻 Learn how to create full backend APIs within the Nuxt 3 framework using server routes.

👉🏻 This guide covers endpoint creation, request handling, response types, and the underlying technologies like Nitro and h3.

Launch Your Nuxt App in Minutes - Not Weeks I built this starter kit because I kept rewriting the same boilerplate for every new Nuxt project.

📅 Events

MadVue (29 May 2025, Madrid, Spain)

PragVue (23 September 2025, Czech Republic)

VueFes (25 October 2025, Otemachi, Japan)

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💬 Quote of the week

🧑🏻‍💻 In Other News

📕 Frontends are hard

👉🏻 Deploying modern frontends is challenging due to their complex infrastructure needs and the rapid pace of updates.

👉🏻 Cloud providers struggle to keep up, leading many to use specialized services like Netlify and Vercel.

👉🏻 SST tackles this by open-sourcing frontend adapters through the OpenNext project and its own infrastructure.

📕 Introducing Zod 4

👉🏻 Zod 4 is now stable after a year of development, with improved speed, reduced size, and better TypeScript efficiency.

📕 JavaScript, when is this?

👉🏻 Dives into the complexities of the this keyword, explaining how its value is ultimately determined by the context in which a function is called, rather than where it’s defined.

🛠️ Tailwind CSS Color Generator

👉🏻 Instantly create stunning color scales by entering a base color.

🛠️ WebTUI

👉🏻 A modular CSS library with Terminal UI components.

👉🏻 It includes ASCII Boxes, badge, button, checkbox, popover, and other components, along with some plugins.

😂 Fun

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